[Gllug] Stripping whitespace in bash script

Nix nix at esperi.org.uk
Sun Aug 13 18:44:58 UTC 2006


On Sun, 13 Aug 2006, Richard Jones whispered secretively:
> On Sun, Aug 13, 2006 at 12:03:33AM +0100, Nix wrote:
>> On Sat, 12 Aug 2006, Richard Jones moaned:
>> > Someone I know wrote an entire web-based bug tracking system ...
>> > 
>> > ... in awk.
>> 
>> A *user* of GNU awk's networking facilities?
>> 
>> (Is this the first?)
> 
> I think he wrote it as CGI scripts, so no networking, only
> stdin/stdout required.  Writing an entire web server in awk ... now
> that would be truly horrific.

That depends. The example web server in the gawkinet manual is only,
what, twenty lines long?

(of course it's not exactly full-featured.)

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